We were disappointed in NVIDIA's launch of a product that has
only recently begun mass production but we saw a great deal of potential in
nForce2 as a platform. One of the biggest drawbacks of the original nForce
was that it could not outperform VIA's cheaper KT333, which kept its incredible
feature set out of the hands of most enthusiasts.

With the highly anticipated successor to NVIDIA's nForce, there
were a number of technologies at work that nullified the performance debate.
NVIDIA had finally produced a platform that could not only deliver an outstanding
feature set but also perform just as well as its closest competitor from VIA.

In the weeks since our original nForce2 review we've been hard
at work on a follow-up to Part I of our coverage. We left a number of loose
ends with the first review, including the performance of the integrated graphics
and a thorough comparison of 64 and 128-bit memory configurations; with this
follow-up we're able to provide those data points as well as answer a number
of questions that remained a mystery from the first review.

The timing of Part II couldn't have been better; both the nForce2
IGP and SPP are both in mass production and motherboards are starting to make
their way into our West Coast Motherboard Evaluation labs. So before you start
seeing reviews of the motherboards you'll be able to purchase soon let's delve
deeper into the nForce2 chasm. There's a lot about this chipset that you don't
know